We are confronting a dual crisis: rising health needs and shrinking health budgets. Healthcare is too often described as expensive. But what is rarely acknowledged is that the cost of inaction is far ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is campaigning for significantly higher taxes on tobacco products, alcohol and sugary drinks. It is urging countries to raise the prices of these harmful products ...
NATA to be given more powers The Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee on Health, Mass Media and Women’s Empowerment has agreed in principle to ban single-stick sales of cigarettes and increase ...
Substance use among 16-year-olds in France has fallen sharply over the past decade, according to findings from the 2024 European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD). The data ...
Re: Jeff Herten’s Nov. 20 column, “What county families deserve to know about alcohol and cancer”: One small addition to Dr. Jeff Herten’s excellent column on alcohol and cancer, the sentence: ...
The Indian government will increase taxes on most tobacco products from February 1, 2026. GST on cigarettes, pan masala, and ...
© 2025 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. Atlanta doctors say a recent U.S. surgeon general report and new federal studies showing links between ...
Nigeria may increase its sin tax on alcohol and tobacco as part of a $750m World Bank loan agreement, aiming to boost non-oil ...